Previous SACP Annual Conferences

2023

55th Annual SACP Conference, San Francisco University
November 9-11, 2023

2022

Delayed

2021

Delayed due to Covid-19

2020

Delayed due to Covid-19

2019

51st Annual SACP Conference, Bath Spa University
Theme: “Arts of Understanding”
June 18 – 21, 2019
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2018

50th Annual SACP Conference, Pedagogical University of Cracow
Theme: “Power and Creativity”
June 08 – 11, 2018
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2017

49th Annual SACP Conference, Peking University, Beijing, China
Theme: “The Paradigm and Values of Chinese Philosophy within a Global Context”
June 09 – 12, 2017
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2016

48th Annual SACP Conference, Honolulu 
Theme: “Imagination”
June 02 – 05, 2016
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2015

47th Annual SACP Conference, Monterey
Theme: “The Past, Present and Future of Cross-Cultural Philosophy”
October 01 – 04, 2015
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2014

46th Annual SACP Conference. SUNY Binghamton
Theme: “Universality and Particularity”
June 19 – 22, 2014
Conference Schedule

2013

45th Annual SACP Conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Theme: “Conflict and Harmony: From Embodied Emotions to Global Realms”
July 08 – 11, 2013
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2012

44th Annual SACP Conference, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Theme: “Comparative Perspective on Ethical Practice”
October 11 – 14, 2012
Conference Schedule (PDF)

2011

43rd Annual SACP Conference, Honolulu
Theme: Sustainability and Interdependence”
Keynote: Joel Kupperman
May 25 – 28, 2011

2010

42nd Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Theme: “Philosophy and Our Common Future”
Keynote: Gerry Larson
June 18 -21, 2010

2009

41st Annual SACP Conference
Theme: “The Sacred and the Secular
Keynote: Roger Ames
June 14 -17

2008

40th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Keynote: Thomas Kasulis
June 08 – 11, 2008

2007

39th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Keynote: Eliot Deutsch
June 10 – 13, 2007

*Re-incorporated as a non-profit organization

2006

38th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Keynote: Wm. Theodore de Bary, “Chinese Classics and a Global Curriculum”
June 18 – 21, 2006

*Tao Jiang, Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and the Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (SACP Monograph Series #21)

2005

37th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Theme: “Self-Other Relations: Immanent-Transcendent?”
Keynote: Arindam Chakrabarti
October 19 – 22, 2005

2004

36th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
Keynote: Weiming Du
June, 2004

2003

35th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California

*Harold D. Roth, A Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu (SACP Monograph Series #20)

2002

No conference was held this year.

*T. C. Kline, III & John Schroeder, St. Mary’s College, take over the editorship of the SACP Monograph Series

*Jane Geaney, On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought (SACP Monograph Series #19)

2001

34th Annual SACP Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California
May, 2001

*John W. Schroeder, Skillful Means: The Heart of Compassionate Buddhism (SACP Monograph Series #18)

2000

 

1999

 

1998

*Roy Perrett, Hindu Ethics: A Philosophical Study (SACP Monograph Series #17)

*Srinivasa Rao, Perceptual Error: The Indian Theories (SACP Monograph Series #16)

*Leo S. Chang & Yu Feng, The Four Political Treatises of the Yellow Emperor: Original Mawangdui Texts with Complete English Translations and an Introduction (SACP Monograph Series #15)

1997

 

1996

*Michael W. Myers, Let the Cow Wander: Modeling Metaphors in Veda and Vedanta (SACP Monograph Series #14)

1995

25^th Anniversary Conference of the SACP, “Past-Presidents Panel” was the opening plenary session, Eliot Deutsch delivered his paper entitled “Speculations on the Past, Assessments of the Future”

*Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti, Definition and Induction: A Historical and Comparative Study (SACP Monograph Series #13)

1994

*Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Ch’en Liang on Public Interest and the Law (SACP Monograph Series #12)

*Thomas E. Wood, Nāgārjunian Disputations: A Philosophical Journey through an Indian Looking-Glass (SACP Monograph Series #11)

1993

*Distinguished Service Award presented to Henry Rosemont, Jr.

1992

 

1991

Annual SACP Conference, India

*Anantanand Rambachan, Accomplishing the Accomplished: The Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Śaṇkara (SACP Monograph Series #10)

1990

Annual SACP Conference, India

1989

 

1988

*Gerald James Larson & Eliot Deutsch, ed. Interpreting across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy (Princeton University Press).

1987

 

1986

 

1985

 

1984

International Conference: Honolulu
Theme: “Interpreting across Boundaries”
August 13-17, 1984

*Book publication resulted from this conference (see 1988)

1983

 

1982

 

1981

 

1980

 

1979

*Ariane Rump & Wing-tsit Chan, trans., notes & intro., Wang Pi, Commentary on the Lao-tsu (SACP Monograph Series #6)

1978

*Honored Eliot Deutsch for his 12 years of service as Secretary-Treasurer

*Kisor K. Chakrabarti, The Logic of Gotama (SACP Monograph Series #5)

1977

*Henry Rosemont, Jr. & Daniel J. Cook, trans., notes & commentary, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese (SACP Monograph Series #4)

1976

*Tu Wei-ming, An Essay on Chung-yung (SACP Monograph Series #3)

1975

*Eliot Deutsch, Studies in Comparative Aesthetics (SACP Monograph Series #2)

1974

*Ronald Dimberg, The Sage and Society: The Life and Thought of Ho Hsin-yin (SACP Monograph Series #1)

*Monograph Series, published by U. Hawaii Press, is launched with the founding editor: Henry Rosemont, Jr.

1973

 

1972

 

1971

 

1970

 

1969

 

1968

*March 22, 9:30 a.m., the first “debate” of the “Comparative Philosophy” was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in Philadelphia. Eliot Deutsch, Frederick Streng (Southern Methodist U), Edwin Garlan (Reed College), and Richard Robinson (U Wisconsin) were the debaters. There were sixty-eight founding members.

1967

*December, Organizing Committee was formed; Eliot Deutsch (U. Hawaii) as Chair, with J. A. B. van Buitenen (U. Chicago), Karl Potter (U Minnesota), Richard Robinson (U Wisconsin)

*This is the Founding of the SACP